How we can install MySQL Server 8 on Centos8 Machine, we further will see how we can create and work on an Database on same.

Oracle MySQL Server 8 is free OpenSource database which is famous among users who like to use OpenSource database, So it also important part of LAMP(Linux,nix/Apache,Nginx/MySQL/Perl,Python). There are various OpenSource platform like WordPress. In this post we will see how we can install MySQL on CentOS8.

SetUP

During this setup, we are using CentOS8 as mentioned below

#
[root@srv19 ~]# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description:    CentOS Linux release 8.3.2011
Release:        8.3.2011
Codename:       n/a

#Redhat Release file
[root@srv19 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS Linux release 8.3.2011

#Kernel Details
[root@srv19 ~]# uname -r
4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64


We have latest CentOS8 machine , we just update it with below command before installation of MySQL on this machine

# yum update

Installation of MySQL

let’s install MySQL Server 8 on CentOS. For installation of MySQL8 Server, we used yum command like below.

#yum install mysql-server

This will ask to press Yes and further install packages on same machine.We can see package information with below command.

[root@srv19 ~]# /usr/sbin/mysqld -V
/usr/sbin/mysqld  Ver 8.0.21 for Linux on x86_64 (Source distribution)
[root@srv19 ~]# rpm -qi mysql-server
Name        : mysql-server
Version     : 8.0.21
Release     : 1.module_el8.2.0+493+63b41e36
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Mon 28 Dec 2020 04:54:54 GMT
Group       : Unspecified
Size        : 113732452
License     : GPLv2 with exceptions and LGPLv2 and BSD
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Wed 16 Sep 2020 21:22:31 BST, Key ID 05b555b38483c65d
Source RPM  : mysql-8.0.21-1.module_el8.2.0+493+63b41e36.src.rpm
Build Date  : Tue 15 Sep 2020 19:54:05 BST
Build Host  : x86-02.mbox.centos.org
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : CentOS Buildsys 
Vendor      : CentOS
URL         : http://www.mysql.com
Summary     : The MySQL server and related files
Description :
MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a
client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon (mysqld)
and many different client programs and libraries. This package contains
the MySQL server and some accompanying files and directories.

Now we have MySQL-Server installed that we might need configure before use. To configure it we have MySQL configuration file located in /etc/my.cnf that could also include other directories as well.

Start MySQL Service

By-Default MySQL Server using data directory from “/var/lib/mysql” that should have separate mount point in case you are using MySQL Server in production Setup. So i have also created one another mount-point(/local/mysql) for it and configure details in MySQL configuration file.

In MySQL-Server 8 on CentOS8 we have /etc/my.cnf file like below.

[root@srv19 ~]# cat /etc/my.cnf
#
# This group is read both both by the client and the server
# use it for options that affect everything
#
[client-server]

#
# include all files from the config directory
#
!includedir /etc/my.cnf.d

This configuration file don’t have any such special configuration parameter for MySQL-Server but include /etc/my.cnf.d directory which has another file(/etc/my.cnf.d/mysql-server.cnf) for server configuration, which has below parameter for configuration. I changed it a bit for my case like below

[root@srv19 ~]# egrep -v "^$|^#" /etc/my.cnf.d/mysql-server.cnf
[mysqld]
datadir=/local/mysql/
socket=/local/mysql/mysql.sock
log-error=/var/log/mysql/mysqld.log
pid-file=/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
max_connections = 200
[client]
socket=/local/mysql/mysql.sock

Now we can start MySQL Server and enable it, so it will start auto during reboot.

[root@srv19 ~]# systemctl start mysqld.service


[root@srv19 ~]# systemctl enable mysqld.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/mysqld.service → /usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service.

We can see its status through systemctl status command.

[root@srv19 ~]# systemctl status mysqld.service
● mysqld.service - MySQL 8.0 database server
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mysqld.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-12-28 06:17:58 GMT; 33s ago
  Process: 6618 ExecStopPost=/usr/libexec/mysql-wait-stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 6871 ExecStartPost=/usr/libexec/mysql-check-upgrade (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 6714 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/mysql-prepare-db-dir mysqld.service (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 6690 ExecStartPre=/usr/libexec/mysql-check-socket (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 6826 (mysqld)
   Status: "Server is operational"
    Tasks: 39 (limit: 11408)
   Memory: 458.2M
   CGroup: /system.slice/mysqld.service
           └─6826 /usr/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr

Dec 28 06:16:12 srv19.geekpills.com systemd[1]: Starting MySQL 8.0 database server...
Dec 28 06:16:12 srv19.geekpills.com mysql-prepare-db-dir[6714]: Initializing MySQL database
Dec 28 06:17:58 srv19.geekpills.com systemd[1]: Started MySQL 8.0 database server.

Now to make to secure and prepare MySQL in proper way through MySQL Secure command in below way.

# mysql_secure_installation

Above command will set password,Remove anonymous users, Disallow root login remotely, Remove test database and access to it. These are some of basic steps to secure MySQL Server.

Below is Syntax for start/stop/restart/status to check MySQL Services

# systemctl status mysqld.service
# systemctl stop mysqld.service
# systemctl start mysqld.service
# systemctl restart mysqld.service

We can also see MySQL log with below commands.

# journalctl -u mysqld.service -xe
# tail -f /var/log/mysql/mysqld.log

Connection of MySQL Server

We can connect MySQL with below command.

[root@srv19 ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 8
Server version: 8.0.21 Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

We can check MySQL status.

mysql> status
--------------
mysql  Ver 8.0.21 for Linux on x86_64 (Source distribution)

Connection id:          8
Current database:
Current user:           root@localhost
SSL:                    Not in use
Current pager:          stdout
Using outfile:          ''
Using delimiter:        ;
Server version:         8.0.21 Source distribution
Protocol version:       10
Connection:             Localhost via UNIX socket
Server characterset:    utf8mb4
Db     characterset:    utf8mb4
Client characterset:    utf8mb4
Conn.  characterset:    utf8mb4
UNIX socket:            /local/mysql/mysql.sock
Binary data as:         Hexadecimal
Uptime:                 5 min 27 sec

Threads: 2  Questions: 5  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 115  Flush tables: 3  Open tables: 36  Queries per second avg: 0.015
--------------

Create Database and provide access

We can create new MySQL database with below command.

mysql> create database wordpress;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.23 sec)

Create user with password to provide password for it.

mysql> create user 'bloguser'@'localhost' identified by 'Passw0rd@257';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.14 sec)

Provide permission on same database.

mysql> grant select, insert, update, delete on wordpress.* to 'bloguser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.10 sec)

mysql> grant all PRIVILEGES on  wordpress.* to 'bloguser'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.19 sec)

We can login on MySQL on same Machine.

[root@srv19 ~]# mysql -u bloguser -p 
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 11
Server version: 8.0.21 Source distribution

Copyright (c) 2000, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| wordpress          |
+--------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

mysql> use wordpress;
Database changed

So with above all commands we can see, we can install MySQL Server 8 on CentOS 8 Machine and can make database with User configuration on same.